The competition began with more than 270 hopefuls, but many got stung by words such as kakemono and cyamonke (ph). From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2005] Reference
In the alcove hangs a kakemono of exquisite beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
They have probably never seen the same picture or the same ornament twice in the kakemono. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
One scroll is hung in the kakemono, and in front of it one ornament, and afterwards a solitary flower. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
"What have you been doing while I was away?" he asked, crossing the room to look at a new kakemono on the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
The shoji are often beautifully painted, and in each room is hung a kakemono (a wall picture, a painting finely executed on a strip of silk). From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference
Usually it is a recess a few feet long and a few inches wide, and over it hangs the finest kakemono that the house can afford, and in front of it is. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference
If a visitor be present in the house, the guest-chamber will be decorated afresh every day, each design showing some new and unexpected beauty in screen, or flower-decked vase, or painted kakemono. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference
The room is neat and spacious; Shinto kakemono from. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Rikiu places the various articles before them, with the kakemono. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Tea] Reference
I have in my possession one kakemono representing a white fox with. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
The art of the kakemono is clumsy; but the conception possesses curious interest. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
There was a tiny copy of the sutras on a tiny reading-desk, and tiny screens and bells and kakemono. From Wordnik.com. [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference
Some very beautiful kakemono representing white foxes were on display at the Tokyo exhibition of 1890. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
These kakemono usually display the footprints upon a very large scale, with a multitude of mystical symbols and characters. From Wordnik.com. [In Ghostly Japan] Reference
Meanwhile four kakemono have been brought forth, unrolled, and suspended from pegs upon the wall; and we rise to examine them. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
A peasant told me that the kakemono and other sacred objects had been given to the neighbouring temple, where they might be seen. º5. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
It is to be found not only upon stone monuments, but also in religious paintings, -- especially certain kakemono suspended in temples. From Wordnik.com. [In Ghostly Japan] Reference
The guardian returns, bringing with him a kakemono, very small, very dusty, and so yellow-stained by time that it might be a thousand years old. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Of all the strange or beautiful things which I am thus privileged to examine, none gives me so much pleasure as a certain wonderful kakemono of Amida Nyorai. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
Resolved at all hazards to rescue the precious painting, he rushes into the burning building and seizes the kakemono, only to find all means of exit cut off by the flames. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Tea] Reference
What I have thus been trying to describe is a kakemono, -- that is to say, a Japanese painting on silk, suspended to the wall of my alcove; -- and the name of it is Shinkiro, which signifies "Mirage.". From Wordnik.com. [Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things] Reference
And as the scene, too swiftly receding, diminishes to the width of a kakemono, I vainly wish that I could buy this last vision of it, to place it in my toko, and delight my soul betimes with gazing thereon. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
There are some kakemono representing Iyeyasu and his retainers; and on either side of the door, separating the inner from the outward sanctuary, there are life-size images of Japanese warriors in antique costume. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
4 An art expert can decide the age of an unsigned kakemono or other work of art in which human figures appear, by the style of the coiffure of the female personages. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
A kakemono, or wall-picture, a painting of a blossoming branch of the cherry on white silk — a perfect piece of art, which in itself fills the room with freshness and beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
First kakemono. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Third kakemono. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Second kakemono. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Fourth kakemono. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
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